i don't really have anything good to say about this game, unfortunately. i find that it feels very lazy overall, there's very few attacks/combos in general, and that's not the biggest deal in the world but when the level design is as barebones as it is (it's just a huge rectangle with no obstacles or interactables whatsoever) I feel like you should probably have a bigger focus on the combat and making it more exciting or interesting. it also seems pretty poorly designed for multiplayer. only one person gets each orb so you have to decide who gets the best ones awkwardly. you also can't revive teammates in any way without finding a dedicated room or beating a boss, but the problem is that rooms/bosses scale to players so if like in our case your two friends die in a boss you do borderline no damage and kinda just have to die or sit there for way too long watching one person slowly chip away. the way orbs work after death is also frustrating, I think making the transform/equip option be a hold down for 2 seconds option so there's a sense of risk + you don't accidentally break a friends orbs would go a long way. ideally though reviving would be a traditional beat em up style where you can just mash a button on a friends knocked out body and they get a small bit of health or something, because otherwise it's a lot of just watching someone play if you die and it's frustrating. the biggest positive i have is the art, the game looks pretty good! hat kid is a funny cameo although comes off a bit weird and out of place especially in story moments but i think it's silly enough for me to not care.

i don't know, i feel kinda bad being so negative about it but i also just don't really like/appreciate a lot of decisions made and i didn't even mention some pretty frustrating bugs we experienced as well. i wish i liked this more than i do overall, and I'll admit I'm also not the biggest beat em up fan in the universe so maybe if you're a huge beat em up fan you'll find some enjoyment me here but even as a casual fan of the genre this is very far on the lower end for me.